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ghsa-3f26-j6r7-9q8v

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-16 03:31

Modified

2025-03-16 03:31

Severity ?

7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

Details

In X.Org X server 20.11 through 21.1.16, when a client application uses easystroke for mouse gestures, the main thread modifies various data structures used by the input thread without acquiring a lock, aka a race condition. In particular, AttachDevice in dix/devices.c does not acquire an input lock.

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CVE-2022-49737 (GCVE-0-2022-49737)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-03-16 00:00

Modified

2025-03-17 16:07

Severity ?

7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

CWE

CWE-413 - Improper Resource Locking

Summary

In X.Org X server 20.11 through 21.1.16, when a client application uses easystroke for mouse gestures, the main thread modifies various data structures used by the input thread without acquiring a lock, aka a race condition. In particular, AttachDevice in dix/devices.c does not acquire an input lock.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1081338
	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1260
	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=1081338;filename=dix-Hold-input-lock-for-AttachDevice.patch;msg=5
	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/dc7cb45482cea6ccec22d117ca0b489500b4d0a0

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	X.org	X server	Version: 20.11 <

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